Baking Madness

So in my little house that I am occupying now, I am without all the trappings that my kitchen in Arizona has. No mixer, no baking sheets, no scale. But I found a few recipes for baking that I wanted to try and attempted to make. My new favorite is Australian teacake. A perfect sized small cake that I bake in an aluminum pot with cinnamon and sugar on top. It's not an original recipe, I got it off of Crash Test Kitchen but it is really good, simple and quick to make. I ate a whole cake by myself in like two days. Not a light and fluffy cake, it's got some body to it making it a great cake to drink with a good cup of tea (My new fave is Chai by Good Earth Teas.)

RECIPE OF THE DAY: AUSTRALIAN CINNAMON TEACAKE

4Tb butter (1/2 stick)
1/2c sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/3c milk
1Tbs melted butter
1 Tbs sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 355F. Grease a 8in cake pan with butter and then dust with flour. If available, line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper. In a small bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until the butter turns lighter in color. Mix in egg and vanilla until well mixed. Measure out flour and milk into separate container. Add the baking powder to the flour and sift. Add half the flour mixture to the egg mixture and blend until smooth. Add half the milk mixture to the egg mixture and mix until blended. Repeat until you use the rest of the flour and milk. Spoon the batter into the prepared cake pan and make sure the batter is spread fairly evenly into the pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until done. Mix together the 1Tbs of sugar with the cinnamon and set aside. When the cake is done and allowed to cool, brush the top of the cake with melted butter and dust the top of the cake with the cinnamon mixture. Serve and enjoy.